JAMES TABOR

James D. Tabor is a retired professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he served as department chair for a decade. He is currently a Distinguished Fellow in Humanities at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. His ten books include the international bestseller The Jesus Dynasty, as well as Paul’s Ascent to Paradise, The Jesus Discovery, and Paul and Jesus.

 

Over the past three decades Tabor has combined his study of ancient texts with fieldwork in archaeology, and since 2008 he has been co-director of the acclaimed Mount Zion excavation in Jerusalem with Drs. Shimon Gibson and Rafi Lewis. Tabor’s blog is at jamestabor.com, with links to all his work.